The Holocaust is not just one story. Each survivor has a story. Each story deserves a life.We give life to stories. Memoirs are a profoundly personal form of storytelling. These diverse stories of individual lives provide glimpses into a history that would otherwise be lost.

For our authors, these memoirs are an important way to preserve their legacies and the legacies of many others, to share their stories and to express the trauma they experienced. For readers, these memoirs are a powerful and moving way to connect with a real person and to learn about Holocaust history through the people who survived. By entering the past through the life of an individual, a reader’s understanding of history is forever changed. These diverse first-person accounts allow readers to grasp the enormity of what happened to six million Jews — one story at a time.

Having published the stories of more than one hundred Canadian Holocaust survivors since 2005, the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program has become a world leader in the publication of Holocaust memoirs in English and in French. All of our books are thoroughly fact-checked and contextualized with expert introductions.